1. Superintendents’ Meeting
Concept English
June 2, 2016

2. Overview 2015/2016 Year Positives Weaknesses Strategy Curriculum Maps
New HMH textbooks
Department Chairs/Notes*
Visits/observations/feedback
Advisory Board Surveys, Interviews, Teaching
Weaknesses
Strategy
Lesson Plans/Pacing of Units
Data analysis/Re-teaching
Accountability

3. Curriculum Hand Off
Spring 2016
Fall 2016

4. Curriculum to Strategy
Once there is a user-friendly document in place, teachers become reviewers, monitors, and improvers of the curriculum. Most importantly, teachers take the time to chose, from the resources, the best strategies to deliver the curriculum.

5. English Advisory Surveys Interviews Video Observations
Curriculum Updates

6. Surveys
Questions based on HMH Collections, SIS, and ideas from Skillful Teacher

7. Part to Whole Relationships
Strategy
Synthesis

8. Requests… Promote communication with Directors/IC’s/Teachers
Direct schools to use what is in “our” resources
Request visits
Use our targeted PD

9. Observations Deep understanding of readings
Connection between classroom structure/strategies and successful teaching
Knowledge of students

10. Interviews
Insert a Video Montage….

11. Revised Curriculum Maps

12. Questioning
Leadership and teachers work together to understand the part to whole relationship between a lesson and a unit.

13. Curriculum/SIS
Explains expectations

14. Curriculum/SIS Orange = suggestions Blue = requirements
Note: Unit Overview does not exist in textbook. Has been created

15. Curriculum/SIS
Lesson plans are not just reading and writing, they are the elements that combine to make teaching effective.

16. Curriculum/SIS
Activities vs. strategies

17. Curriculum/SIS
Resources…why aren’t they used?

18. Lesson Plans
Poor
Excellent

19. Units, Lessons, and Teaching
15 years of research*about teaching best practice:
1. Teacher Clarity – clarifies purpose, goals, explicit criteria for success, and examples of end products.
2. Classroom Discussions – using specific strategies
3. Feedback – individual feedback written and oral, but also whole group feedback about how class is working together
4. Formative Assessments – frequent and routine
5. Metacognitive Strategies – time and space to be aware of their own thinking and knowledge as it improves ownership
*Compiled by John Hattie in Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning

20. Timetable Curriculum Maps 6– 12th Grade English 5/20
Curriculum Maps Electives (3) 6/3
Electives – Teachers Must Submit Syllabus/Maps
Vacation /13 – 7/4
SIS Updates/Color Coding 7/22
EOC’s with Concept English Advisory 7/23-24
Assessments – More alignment
Orientation: Lesson Plans/Strategies Various